I cleaned out the fridge yesterday and washed all the shelves and drawers. Whew! It's a big job but a rewarding one. Now, it looks like a brand new refrigerator. Didn't do the freezer side, since it's pretty packed with stuff. I'll tackle that when it's a good bit emptier.
I had a pound of kielbasa-type beef sausage that I needed to use up, so I made a potato sausage bake for supper. I got the recipe off Allrecipes.com. I like that website because there are reviews and you can see how people adapted the recipe to suit their personal tastes. Here's what I did:
Sliced up the sausage and combined it with sliced carrots, diced potatoes, and diced onion. Over that I poured 1 can of cream of mushroom soup (lower sodium) and 1 can of broccoli cheese soup, 1/2 cup sour cream, and plenty of seasonings (paprika, garlic powder, black pepper, and parsley). Did not add salt, because there was plenty in the ingredients. Put it all into a 9 x 13 pan and covered it with a light sprinkling of sharp cheddar cheese. Covered with foil and baked for almost an hour and a half at 350, uncovered it and baked for another 15 minutes.
It was tasty and different for us. We're not big sausage eaters, but this was a good dish and could easily be changed up to add different veggies and flavors.
Thrifty And Frugal Thursday
5 hours ago